Mono's demise bad news for open source
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| It's also based on Windows technology. Mono is a "clean-room"
| clone of Microsoft's .Net development platform, written for
| Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
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| When Novell's Miguel de Icaza first began work on Mono, people
| said he was crazy.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/0EC99FBB73788FF1CC25723E0007ADDA
Neil McAllister is an Open Source basher. This was said many times before in
a variety of Web sites, so his views on the trend/event is worth ignoring
while the demise of .Net is the news worth cheering about. Mono is an IP
timebomb from Novell.
Related:
Red Hat Doesn't Want Mono
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| There are a lot of great new programs and innovations expected
| in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Novell-led Mono project isn't
| one of them.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3644981
Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
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| Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
| poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
| company Evans Data.
|
| [...]
|
| Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
| during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
| other development language, according to a recently published
| survey.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
|
| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
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